Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...town of Roxbury, founded soon after Boston, did much work towards the close of the Seventeenth Century in starting new colonies, and among many was one, Woodstock, Connecticut, which on the seventh of last September celebrated its two hundredth birthday. The above is an historical sketch delivered on that day to the people, and traces the town's history to the present...
...great world of humanity lay around it unfelt, unregarded. The secular world was absorbed, was ignored or denounced. Like a rock in a great sea, rising upon its own foundations, beaten upon by waves of which it took no manner of account. So stands the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; so Harvard College which it built in the midst of the multifarious and restless history...
Then Lee fell a few miles back, and drew up to the north and east of Sharpsburg, where all his troops, except Hill's division, joined him. The Union forces were drawn up against him; and both sides fought fiercely during the seventeenth. Both parties were exhausted, and the Confederates began to draw in their lines. Then Sedgwick's fresh division of 6000 northern men made a charge. But at that moment Hill came up with his soldiers from Harper's Ferry, charged Sedgwick in the flank, and in twenty minutes routed the whole division. Then Burnside's troops drove...
...wonder, in view of these facts, that the microscope received much attention, and as early as the first part of the seventeenth century the "compound microscope" was invented. Henceforth the progress of the instrument was that of mechanical skill and scientific knowledge. The establishing of the theory of Achromatics, late in the last century, brought the microscope rapidly forward, and the date of 1807 finds us with an "a chromatic microscope," embracing all the main features of the present instrument...
...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...